SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS

In his interview with Israeli TV Channel 10, ICG Analyst Ofer Zalzberg calls for an inclusion of religious leaders in – what he terms – political conversations about the Israeli-Palestine conflict. “We have to find another way to address sanctity in the conflict and accept it that there are large publics on both sides that attribute deep sanctity to various components in the conflict,” Zalzberg argues. Please read more in the attached interview transcript.

Herbert Kelman has been bringing together Israelis and Palestinians for decades in hope of finding and compromise. ‘I’ve never believed any of this is easy, but you’ve got to keep a sense of possibility, otherwise what’s the use of trying.’

At the International Summer Academy in Schlaining, participants and speakers discussed various challenges to European Peace, be they ecological, economic, political or psychological. How can we deal with such challenges? One conclusion […]

In their new book, Werner Wintersteiner (Board member of the Kelman Institute) and Cordula Wohlmuther, highlight the role of tourism for a culture of peace in the border region of Austria, Italy and Slovenia. Focussing on three “paths of peace” along former front lines of World War I, the authors stimulate the debate on war and peace in […]…